Born in Darlana Kapperberg Sweden, June 1, 1868.
Her father was a shoe cobbler and a blacksmith, also a lay preacher, self-educated,
but not licensed to speak.

Her mother died of cancer, and Grandma often spoke
of her father (Glad) and herself being so mean to her mother, that her
mothers brothers (2 or 3) came and took her away to their home, where she
died three months later.

Grandma didnít seem to mind telling this about
her father and herself, because she idolized her father. She didnít seem
to have any affection for her mother at all. Grandma was about 17 years
old then. After she and Bodeen were married she and her husband came to
the United States in 1892 and lived in Minnesota a few years. She also
spoke about Kandiyohi County or Township in Minnesota.

They left Minnesota in the year 1900 and homesteaded
in North Dakota.

That fall, Bodeen took work on a threshing rig
to make some money and was crushed between the engine and separator at
Enderlin, North Dakota where he was buried, but she never saw his grave.
She was left with seven children, Anna, Victor, Arvid, Albert, Hjalmer,
and Andrew. The baby a girl died at age 3 months. The oldest son Andrew
went with some other men hauling coal from a mine along the Des Lacs Lake,
and fell from his wagon and broke his neck, and died at 15 years of age.

Her son Hjalmer who was about 6 years became ill
with Spinal Meningitis and she had a doctor come out from Minot, North
Dakota to see him but he died July 11, 1904. The doctor cost her $30.00.

After this her two room house burned, and a neighbor
by the name of Lan Rause, and who was still a bachelor and who had land
south of the Bodeen place took them in and let them stay with him.

Neighbors all came together and built Grandma
a 2-room house, right over the same basement. One could only enter through
a trap-door in the hallway to the stairs.

It was not connected to the one Grandpa Johnson
must have had dug, when he had the entrance, hall, kitchen and pantry built
on.

Grandma never told Geneva why she didnít appreciate
or mix with the neighbors when they had been so good to her. She never
said they really helped me. She only spoke once about living at Daddy Rouses
after her house burned down. Grandpa Johnson lived at the Bodeen place,
after they were married and just built his barn and outer buildings on
his homestead. The four Johnson children were born before he built the
house on his place. Grandma said she was never in the house or near it
until she had told him to build it with high ceilings and he sure did.
Grandpa wouldnít paint so they calcimined the walls and ceilings and also
the Bodeen place.

Grandma got her sisters Lena and Betsy and her
brother Eric over from Sweden. Betsy married an older man, a bachelor by
the name of Mauritz Welta on a quarter of land east of the Bodeen place
the (Rollie Ross farm now) Betsy was real young when she was married after
they lost their farm they moved to Canada and homesteaded, Lena Coteau
married an Erickson and lived in North Dakota. Then they moved to Billings,
Montana. He had lost his leg in a mine accident near Kenmore, North Dakota
then she divorced Erickson.

Albert Bodeen (her son) joined the Army and was
sent to Ft. Leaverworth, where he caught that terrible flu in 1918 and
died October 25, 1918. They called for Grandma but she sent Annie instead.

Grandma said Bodeen was slow-witted, but that
she loved him best of the two husbands.

Erick, Annaís brother never married, and became
a drunkard while studying for the Ministry and went around preaching like
his father did.

Do not know where he is buried, possibly in Chicago,
where he was living at one time.